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In 1917 a ship laden with the most explosives ever packed on a vessel sailed out of Brooklyn's harbor for the battlegrounds of World War I; when it stopped in Halifax, Nova Scotia, an extraordinary disaster took place: the largest man-made detonation prior to Hiroshima.

What happens when ideas presented as science lead us astray? History is full of brilliant ideas that led to disaster. This book presents accounts of how science has been misused disastrously, and how we can learn to use its power for good.

How one small town club took on, triumphed over, and utterly confounded the financial behemoths of English soccer: this is Leicester City.

Reporter Robyn Doolittle was one of three journalists to view the video of Mayor Rob Ford apparently smoking crack cocaine and report on it in May 2013. Doolittle presents a portrait of a troubled man, a formidable family, and a city caught in an astonishing scandal.

In 1877, Ponca Indians were forcibly relocated from Nebraska to Oklahoma. "I Am a Man" chronicles what happened when Standing Bear began a six-hundred-mile walk to return the body of his son to their traditional burial ground.

Buster, an English springer spaniel who has served his comrades and his country with unstinting devotion, has saved thousands of lives. This is the story of his partnership with RAF Police Sergeant Will Barrow, told by Will himself, describing how each came to save the other's life.

What is autism: a lifelong disability or a naturally occurring form of cognitive difference akin to certain forms of genius? Steve Silberman unearths the secret history of autism, going back to the earliest days of autism research to provide long-sought solutions to the autism puzzle.

When Jennifer Teege, a German-Nigerian woman, discovers to her horror that her grandfather was Amon Goeth, the vicious Nazi commandant depicted by Ralph Fiennes in Schindler's List, she sets out on a quest to unearth and fully comprehend her family's haunted history.

Winner of the first Newbery Medal, this book revolutionized methods of telling history by recounting history as living news, relating everything in the past to the present, writing informally, and making world history exciting.

In November 1979, the American embassy in Tehran was invaded by a group of radical students who took 54 workers hostage. However, six diplomats secretly escaped. Here, author Robert Wright chronicles the escapees' harrowing ordeal and the men and women who were working undercover in Tehran to bring the hostage crisis to an end.